EDDIE HENDERSON — Inside Out (review)

EDDIE HENDERSON — Inside Out album cover Album · 1974 · Fusion Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Sean Trane
The little sister of Realization, Inside Out was recorded six months later in the same conditions (Frisco with Drinkwater), but with former WE’s Eric Gravatt replacing RTF’s Lenny White and finding Bill Summers on congas. One of the main differences with IO is that there are more and shorter tracks on the present, when compared to its predecessor, even though Moussaka and the title tracl reach respectively roughly 9-mins each. Other than that’s the general sonics are much the same, maybe a tad more dissonant at times, somewhat contemporary at others (Omnispresence and Exit 1), but the recipe is pretty much unchanged from the older sister’s Realization cooking pan. Gleeson’s electronic twiddlings are again a source of amazement, when not challenged too hard by Eddie Mganga’s sometimes-extreme trumpet playing. Apparently, there appears to have some un-credited electric funky guitar parts in Fusion and in the title track. Musically, the present is a tad more varied in its musical scope.

Sooo, if you want to acquire this album in CD format, you’ll have no choice than to find the 2on1 Capricorn Years Anthology, where Inside Out is coupled with his next album Inside Out, but since these two are very similar in style, you probably won’t mind at all casting two shots from one stone. The only downside to this solution is that one of the two artworks gets sacrificed and that the succession of both albums so similar can be a bit lengthy and too much in one sitting. Personally I tend to prefer the older sister, but let’s face it, the younger one is just as aurally sexy, if not a tad more challenging. Generally seen as the third stooge, the following Sunburst is a fairly different affair, despite part of it still claiming the Mwandishi legacy.

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